Improvement in implements for removing corns, bunions



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES L. ROORBACH, OF

ST. CLAIR, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN IMPLEMENTS FOR REMOVIN CORNS, BUNIONS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1l0,l62, dated December 13, 1870.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. RooRBAoH, of St. Clair, in the county of Schuylkill and State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew and useful'EXterminator for Corns, Bunions,&o.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a clear and exact description of the nature thereof, sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to fully understand and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specification, in which the figures are side and end views.

My invention consists in a composition of matter which is adapted to be applied to a suitable handle or other implement for manipulating purposes, and to harden on drying, so as to produce a body with a roughened surface having the quality of a iile or line rasp,

which, when worked on or againsta corn, bunat one end a handle for convenient operation. IVhen the paste is dry, it becomes quite hard, and produces a file or rasp surface.

In using my invention I work or rub the device over and on the corn or otherwise, thus gradually ling or wearing it away. The surface, though rough, is not irritative. The moisture of the corn or bunion assists in the attritive operation, which thereby becomes soothing and gentle in its result.

Vermilion may be applied to the composition as a coloring-matter to produce a nice 1inish and appearance;l but it also serves to smoothen the surface of the exterminator, and thus lessen the harsh effects of the emery.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A composition of matter forming a body with a roughened surface, for rubbing or iiling corns, 8vo., and thus exterminate them.

2. The improved corn-iile herein described, produced by the combination of a body of wood-or other material as a base, and a coating compound of the character described, all substantially as set forth.

The above signed by me this 23d day of November, 1870.

CHARLES L. ROORBACH. IVitnesses:

WM. G. BUEWELI., MARTIN TEMPEsT. 

